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v24_0732 - CONSTANTIUS II Solidus

CONSTANTIUS II Solidus AU
AU
MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 850.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 875.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 960.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 347-348
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Flan large, complet et irrégulier, légèrement ondulé. Revers de toute beauté. Frappe légèrement tréflée sur la légende au droit
Catalogue references :
C.260 var. (25f.) - RIC.132 (R3) - Dep.6 /1 (2 ex.) - MRK.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : CONSTANTI-VS AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Flavius Iulius Constantius Pius Felix Augustus” (Flavien Jules Constance pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTORIA DD NN AVGG/ VOT/ XX/ MVLT/ XXX// TR.
Reverse description : Deux victoires debout face à face, tenant ensemble un bouclier sur lequel est inscrit une légende en quatre lignes.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Dominorum Nostrorum Augustorum// Votis vicennalibus Votis tricennalibus” (La Victoire de nos seigneurs augustes/ Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le trentième à venir).

Commentary

Trace de cassure de coin devant le visage sur le diadème. Le trésor du Portugal comptait 58 exemplaires de ce type.

Historical background

CONSTANTIUS II

(8/11/324-3/11/361)

Augustus

Constantius II was born on August 7, 318 in Sirmium. He was raised to the cesarat on November 8, 324 at the age of six. He will reign 37 years, one of the longest reigns of the 4th century. After having crushed the revolt of Magnentius, he was alone august with a Caesar, Constance Galle, whom he had executed in 354. On November 6, 355, he elevated his cousin Julian to the title of Caesar. He went to Rome in 357, then to Sirmium, which he made his capital. Faced with the Sassanid danger, he left this region in 359 and settled in Antioch. Julien is proclaimed august in February 360. Constantius dies on November 3, 361, leaving Julien at the head of the Empire.

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